Clare was looking through her closet trying to figure out what she was going to wear tomorrow. She wanted something that stood out but not too much and definitely nothing slutty. After an hour or so she finally found the perfect first day of school outfit. It was a jean squirt with a blue shirt that had pink and red flowers on it she took out a pair of Mary Jane's and her favorite jean jacket "perfect" she whispered as she set the outfit out on her desk.

KC was sitting on his bed looking at a picture of himself and Clare. They were at The Dot sitting next to each other and he had his arm around her and she was leaning against his shoulder. Just then it hit KC he didn't want to risk his relationship with Clare he really loved her and he had been a big idiot for cheating on her with Abby.

He pulled his cell phone out and texted Abby 'it's over. I'm done I don't want to play around anymore.' He hit send and waited to see if he got a response from her.

'Why?' was all that she replied.

KC took a deep breath and texted her back 'I can't do this to Clare; she is a wonderful girl and deserves to be treated as such.'

Within a minute she replied 'If that is what you want, but you will be back and I will be here waiting because you are that good.' KC looked at the text and decided not to continue the conversation he sent one last text before going to bed. 'Hey beautiful, meet me tomorrow in the entrance I really need to talk to you.' He hit sent and waited for the reply.

'Sounds good, I miss you see you tomorrow bright and early .' KC smiled when he saw the reply and realized that he had done the right thing to end everything with Abby.

"Hey Adam is going to catch a ride to school with us tomorrow ok." Eli said to Julia who just nodded, she was putting her book bag close to the door so she would have it ready for tomorrow.

By the time Clare's alarm went off she had already been awake for fifteen minutes. She was anxious to get to school for two major reasons, one she just loved the first day of school she loved everything about it, getting to know her teachers and especially seeing what books she was going to have to read even though she probably had already read them. And the second reason was to talk to KC.

Clare felt as if through the summer her and KC had drifted apart, they didn't spend as much time as they use to together but for some reason she felt as if yesterday's text was a way of him trying to fix their relationship and she hoped that that was true.

KC arrived to school twenty minutes before the bell rang; he sat on the steps and waited for his girlfriend to arrive. After waiting for five minutes he saw her getting off the bus with her best friends her hair was down and left curly she was wearing a short jean skirt with a blue shirt with pink flower that really brought out her eyes.

As she walked towards him he was sure that he had made the right decision to end things with Abby. "Hey beautiful, how are you?" he greeted her once she reached him. Clare got on her tippy toes and placed a chaste kiss on KC's lips.

"All better now that I got to see you." She answered shyly, Clare was not the type to be flirty but she did want to keep her boyfriend entertained she knew she had to step up her game.

"I'm glad to hear that." KC said before leaning down and kissing Clare on the lips but this time he deepened the kiss. "Gross" Jenna and Alli said at the same time teasing KC and Clare who had a deep blush on her cheeks.

"So you wanted to talk to me?" Clare asked after her embarrassment passed, KC nodded and took a deep breath he knew this was it, it was now or never he looked in to his girlfriend's eyes and began "I have something to tell you and I don't want you to feel obligated to say anything but I really have to get this off my chest." His heart was pounding he thought everyone around them was able to hear it.

Clare never took her eyes of him and that gave him a little bit of confidence. "Clare I really like you, you are the prettiest and smartest girl I know and well… I just wanted to say that…" Just then he saw Abby walking towards the door with her friends a blush crept in to his cheeks but he told himself to focus on the girl in front of him.

"That I love you." He blurted out as Abby passed next to them; she looked at KC and then began laughing. He wasn't sure if she was laughing because she heard him or at something else. Clare looked at KC she had a dumbfounded look on her face, she was shocked to say the least and she was not sure if she felt the same way she knew she really liked him but she was not sure that she loved him.

"I don't know what to say." She said just above a whisper. KC nodded and kissed her forehead "its fine Clare I don't expect you to say it back I just want you to know how I feel about you." Clare looked up at him and smiled.

All day long all Clare could do was think about what KC had said to her this morning she couldn't concentrate on anything else and what was worse was that she hadn't had a single class with her friends until right now. Clare walked in to the girl's locker room searching for Jenna and Alli; she spotted them at the end of the hallway talking to each other.

"Hey I need to talk to guys." Clare blurted out, Jenna and Alli both looked at Clare and motioned for her to continue.

"KC told me he loved me." Both girls were shocked at what had come out of Clare's mouth. "Did you say it back?" Alli asked her "No, I couldn't I don't know if I do love him or not all I said to him was that I wasn't sure what to say and apparently he was ok with it." Saying it out loud made Clare weary it made her doubt if he really meant it or if he is just messing with her.

"Well then you have to think about your feelings but don't tell him anything until you know you love him." Alli advised her and Jenna agreed. "I guess you are right." Clare said unsure of what to do. Just then the bell rang letting them know that it was time to walk out to the gym.

"All right ladies we are going to play badminton I will pick your partners and we will alternate the teams around so when I call your name and your partners name I will give you a number, even numbers sit to my right and odd numbers to my left. Here we go Abigail Luna and Trina Johnson you are number one, Alli Bhandari and Jenna Middleton two, Stacy McMillan and Kate Ortega three, Sandra Gonzalez and Bianca DeSousa four, Clare Edwards and Julia Montgomery five," The coach went on to the rest of the girls.

"Your partner is Eli's girlfriend" Jenna whispered in Clare's ear. Clare looked at Jenna as if she was crazy; she had no idea who Eli was. "Eli, the guy I have a crush on." Jenna answered annoyed. Clare just nodded and made her way to her partner.

"Hey so I guess we have to sit on the sideline until one of those two teams loses." Julia informed Clare.

The two girls sat on the bleachers and waited for a team to lose so they could go in and play even though they were both secretly hopping the game would go on forever so they would never get a chance to play.

"What grade are you in?" Clare asked Julia who was daydreaming about her boyfriend. "Tenth, and you?" Clare smiled at her "Same" the silence was a little awkward but it was better than being in the court playing.

"I can't believe they got us playing badminton on the first day of school." Julia scoffed. "You don't like sports?" Clare asked "Not that much. Plus I prefer to watch them than actually playing them." The rest of the class pretty much went on the same way; they would play a game and sit out two or three.

The next period was the one Eli was looking forward to, not only because he had it with his friend Adam but because it was English and English was the one subject he was good at.

"Do you think the teacher will assign good books to read? I don't want none of those chick books I want some action books maybe even a comic." Adam exclaimed walking next to Eli they were both headed to Mrs. Dawes English class. As soon as they walked in they were greeted by Mrs. Dawes. "Have stand along the wall I will call your name and your partners name and then the both of you can pick your seats." Mrs. Dawes explained to the Class.

'Great' Clare thought. She didn't like the idea of working with a partner in English class. She didn't want anyone bringing her grade down or having to do more work because of lazy partners.

"Let's begin, Mr. Torres you and Ms. Hensley can go and pick your desks, remember they have to be together so pick something you both like." Mrs. Dawes went on. After Adam and Kelsey picked desks Mrs. Dawes continued on her list.

"Mr. Fitzgerald you and Ms. DeSousa can go and pick your seats. Mr. Goldsworthy you and Ms. Edwards please pick your seats." Clare took a deep breath and walked towards the middle of the class to take her seat. She examined her new partner he has an emo look to him, all dressed in black with rings on all his fingers and thick leather bracelets on his hands. His hair is black and kind of shaggy with it falling right over his right eye.

Just as Clare was examining Eli, he was examining her he liked the natural look she had, even though he wasn't too in to the curly long hair on her it seemed to fit well and the way she handled herself was something he liked.

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